Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 1238

Kyunroe Subjugation (30)

Crack, crack…!!!!

Dark blue lightning crackled and surged along the carelessly extended arm.

A dark blue thunder god, as if his entire body had been transformed into lightning.

The moment they first faced his elegant yet bizarre form, wreathed in scattering lightning.

However, no one could properly express their feelings about Kyunroe, who had just descended to the ground for the first time.

Thud!!

The transcendents of the legion, who had been approaching from all directions around the shattered golden throne, simultaneously.

They effortlessly bypassed the senses, magic, and perception they had exerted with all their might.

Kyunroe’s arm, which had pierced Songha’s heart, gleamed ominously.

Chiiik!!!

The dripping blood vanished into the swirling lightning, evaporating.

A harbinger of disaster, crushing and burning flesh, and absorbing the light of life.

“…!!!!!”

Too late, everyone understood the meaning of what had just happened and was horrified.

The 8-level transcendent, once called the strongest swordsman of the Western Continent.

The genius whose talent with the sword was said to be unmatched, hadn’t even perceived Kyunroe’s preemptive strike.

‘No, it’s not just that-!!!’

He had approached, effortlessly piercing the gap in Songha’s senses, which were the most sensitive on this battlefield.

Such speed that even Songha himself couldn’t perceive the attack until the moment his heart was pierced and shattered.

Realizing this, Daymus shuddered, feeling the immeasurable transcendence.

“This is, impossible…!!!!”

“You idiot…!!!!”

“Ah.”

Songha, ignoring Baragan’s shout, slightly lowered his head.

“…Cough.”

Songha, staring blankly at the swirling dark blue thunder god in front of him, coughed up blood.

The blood flowing back up his throat didn’t stop, turning from bright red to a dark, dead color.

Even while spewing blood, Songha didn’t lose his composure. He tried to lift his head with difficulty, then gave up and chuckled.

“I, see…”

[……]

“Ethan, was wro…”

Crack!!!

There was no reply.

The moment Kyunroe twisted his arm without even looking back at Songha, his form was engulfed in dark blue lightning and exploded.

Songha’s body, splattered with blood, was flung away and crashed into the wall of the labyrinth at tremendous speed.

Kwaaaang!!

Drrrrrrrk!!!

Songha’s body, with a hole in the center of his chest, was flung away like a toy, sliding down the wall, leaving a trail of blood.

His body, slumped with his head bowed, didn’t even show a faint twitch.

“…Ah.”

“Ah, ahh…!!!”

The superhumans of the legion, watching this, couldn’t bear it and panicked.

The ascension ritual, which they had managed to stop after a desperate battle that consumed most of their forces.

But Kyunroe, who had been dragged into reality after the ritual failed, was no longer an ordinary transcendent or seeker.

Having lost his reason and even transforming his body into a mere bolt of lightning, he was consumed by an endless bloodlust.

He was just a monster that killed and destroyed everything that moved in front of him.

Even Songha was probably just a target for him to vent his anger on.

His brutal actions made the soldiers realize this fact more clearly than anything else.

“No, it can’t be…”

“Retreat…!! We have to retreat here…!!”

The soldiers, their will broken in an instant, shouted and turned around, their previous resolve rendered futile.

Forgetting their loyalty to the legion and their disobedience to orders, the minds of the superhumans, consumed by fear, collapsed.

The moment they abandoned their ranks, flailing their arms and legs.

Crack!!

A blackish-blue electric shock flashed, and the heads of the fleeing soldiers evaporated.

The bodies, with only their necks remaining, staggered and fell, spraying fountains of blood.

Pshooosh!!!

Kyunroe stood in front of the corpses, silently watching the blood they were spewing.

“…This can’t be happening.”

As Daymus watched the scene with a rigid expression, those who had not yet lost their fighting spirit moved.

“Uwaaaaaaah!!!”

A giant, whose entire body had been modified with machinery, swung the axe he was holding with a desperate cry.

A weight that easily exceeded 3 meters in length, enough to turn anyone into a lump of meat upon impact.

Whoosh!!

The axe blade swung by the giant evaporated and disappeared before it even touched Kyunroe’s body.

Before the giant could regain his balance, staggering from the sudden lightness of the axe handle, Kyunroe turned around.

Crunch.

A blackish-blue lightning flashed, evaporating the giant’s upper body on the spot.

From the cross-section of the mechanical giant’s waist, with only his lower body remaining, his intestines and spinal cord flowed down his legs.

“This, can’t be…”

As Daymus repeated the same words blankly, Kyunroe slowly took a step forward.

Crack…!!

With each step, dark blue lightning surged from his feet, engulfing Kyunroe’s entire body.

As if, with every moment of movement, Kyunroe’s existence was being newly reconstructed and created.

The ceaselessly blooming lightning constantly redefined, rewrote, and transformed Kyunroe.

“…Loberide.”

Atiya, standing below the throne, called out to the legion commander in a stiff voice.

Her face was already covered in pale cold sweat.

“You see that, right?”

“…Yes.”

“It’s a monster. Maybe even more so than before…”

“……..”

Both Loberide and Atiya were 8-level warriors who had transcended their ranks based on martial arts.

They had constantly trained themselves and cultivated their minds and bodies, so they knew the moment they faced him.

The blackish-blue lightning piercing and rotating through the heavens and earth. The dark blue nebula that had swallowed the legion commander. The large-scale massacre magic that had annihilated the legion’s main forces.

They could no longer understand the being standing before them now, more than Kyunroe who had freely wielded that power as if breathing.

The transcendent who had failed the ascension ritual had lost his body and reached a completely unpredictable point.

“Well, this isn’t the ending I was expecting.”

Sarin muttered, instantly drawing her blood-red twin swords.

The smile that had been on her face had completely vanished.

“I messed up the ascension ritual, but there’s a bonus stage left. This is a different story.”

“Is it that he is maintaining his original power even after failing the great challenge?”

The Iron Chain Dragon King said with an expressionless face.

“Even the blessed Silver Star could not command such a miracle. It is certainly an extremely unusual case.”

“Did the doctor’s… prediction fail?”

Esteban, who had been thrown down below the throne, struggled to lift his gaze.

He covered his damaged internal organs with mercury to stop the bleeding, and as he stood up, he muttered.

“It wasn’t… over when the ritual was stopped. Kyunroe’s, ability… has already gone beyond failure…”

The plan that the doctor had explained before entering Area 49 was to stop the ascension ritual, draw Kyunroe out, and deal with him.

That was based on the assumption that Kyunroe, who had failed the ritual, would be much weaker than before.

However, even though they had stopped the ascension ritual at the cost of most of their forces being annihilated, the transcendent standing before them had become a completely incomprehensible being.

Whether Kyunroe had become like this because he had failed the ascension ritual, or whether he was already ‘that kind’ of being regardless of the ritual.

The doctor, who could have deduced that, was no longer here.

Even if he had remained in this place, it was uncertain whether he could have given an answer.

Instead, a monster, more bizarrely distorted than anything they had faced so far, was standing before them.

Beep!!

“System communication network… reconnected. Selecting currently available forces… assigned new identification numbers.”

Daymus, who had managed to bring up the stuttering system with noise, spoke with difficulty.

He had used his lifespan to restrain Ivelin’s feet and had been thrown out, so he was practically at his limit.

Doing his duty as a commander was probably the best he could do.

“From now on, I will assist with the operation. However…”

However, was it a delusion that the surroundings had become strangely quiet at the same time as the ritual failed?

The sniper fire of Hyungung. The barrage of Tatiana. The blood magic of the Blood Hole Master. None of it was felt.

The powerful superhumans who had been fighting on Kyunroe’s side had disappeared as if they had made a pact.

Daymus knew that it was not a coincidence, but instead of saying it, he closed his mouth.

Uncertain information would only lower the morale of his allies and cloud their judgment.

Here, they would focus all their efforts on dealing with the transcendent being in front of them.

Whoooooosh!!!!

Listening to Daymus’s briefing over the communication network, the surviving superhumans moved.

All the superhumans who were too foolish to understand what Daymus was trying to say were dead.

Those who remained here were only the skilled individuals with the intellect and ability to judge and survive on their own.

[……]

Crack, crack…!!!!

Kyunroe, feeling the killing intent pouring towards him from all directions, lifted his gaze.

The moment the dark blue transcendent, who was strangely devoid of any presence, took a step forward.

Dark blue lightning surged along his steps, and the battlefield was transformed.

Fwaaaat!!!!

Everything visible blurred and distorted, and he ran in a trance.

He mixed and wielded magic and thoughts haphazardly, increasing his speed and changing direction.

Pshooosh!!

Clank!!

In a space where time seemed to have stopped, Atiya and Loberide’s forms rotated at tremendous speed on either side of Kyunroe.

The moment Atiya, who had unleashed a burst of magic and swung her gauntlets, and Loberide, who had used his small universe to increase the weight of his fist, exploded from above and below.

Kyunroe, who had pushed out with his hands crossed, simultaneously blocked the two punches that were falling and rising.

Jjeoooooong!!!!!

“…!!!!”

Was this what it would feel like to hit a dam full of water with a bare fist?

The sense of helplessness, as if the impact wasn’t even being transmitted, even though they had hit with all their might, using even their small universes.

No. What was more incomprehensible than the simple difference in power was that he was simultaneously cutting off the two punches that were breaking space with a time difference-

Crack!!

The moment Kyunroe lightly twisted his hand, Atiya’s gauntlets and Loberide’s arm guards were torn off like toys.

The two warriors, who had instantly lost their equipment and were exposed, didn’t panic and threw their bodies with all their might, but it was already too late.

The lightning that pierced Atiya and Loberide’s shoulders and abdomens exploded, and the two men’s forms were smashed into the ground and crushed.

Kwajijijik-

Bones and muscles were crushed, armor was shattered, and flesh was torn, revealing bare bones.

Leaving behind the two legion commanders who had been flung away as lumps of flesh, the psychics moved.

“Everyone, stand behind me!!!”

The tenth seat of the Ability Awakening Corps. The ninth seat of the corps, Escardo Silvan.

Silvan, a hardening ability user, had the ability to transform his entire body into an insulator that did not allow any properties to pass through.

Silvan’s skin instantly turned black and hardened, blocking Kyunroe’s path.

The other ability users expanded their collective mental network to the limit and poured it directly towards Kyunroe.

Kiiiiiiing-!

One of the key means of disrupting the ascension ritual was Aphelia’s spirituality, which Esteban had directly shoved into Kyunroe.

If that was the case, then they could inflict damage simply by forcibly connecting the mental network, with her as the subject, to Kyunroe’s consciousness.

It wasn’t a wrong judgment, but-

Crack!!

Kyunroe’s hand slammed down on Silvan’s face as he moved forward with his arms raised.

The fingers, swirling with dark blue lightning, dug into Silvan’s eye sockets, and the moment he grabbed his face.

Kyunroe, who had grabbed Silvan’s face, swung his shoulder at an invisible speed.

Bbeooooooong!!!!

Following Kyunroe’s movement as if shaking off his arm, a blackish-blue thunderous sound rose like dark blue wings and exploded.

It swept away all the psychics who had been moving with Silvan and cleanly evaporated their bodies.

“Ugh, uh…”

Silvan’s face, still held in Kyunroe’s hand, was half-melted and dripping.

The firepower that ignored even high-level abilities and crushed them. A single response that annihilated the corps’ ability users.

“Ah, oh God…!!”

“Are you abandoning us…!!”

Puhbuhbuhbung!!!

The heads and upper bodies of the priests of the cult, who were lamenting and praying, were crushed and scattered into the sky.

The modified weapons, which were continuously reporting system errors, were torn apart and melted.

The form of the dark blue thunder god, crushing everything, regardless of humans or machines, soldiers, ability users, fanatics, and mages.

Kwaaaah!!!

With a single gesture, he burst the shoulder of an officer who was rushing at him, and reached out towards the falling spells.

He grabbed the spell bombardment that was decomposing matter, which was being fired using totems as materials, with his bare hands.

He crushed the bright green magic power that was flashing in his hand with force and then extinguished it.

Drddddk…!!!

A bizarre cracking sound that seemed to tear eardrums just by listening to it.

Sarin, behind Kyunroe, who was quietly looking down at it, bit her lip and increased her speed.

“This isn’t a mage. What the hell is this-”

Kaang!!!!

Holding the twin swords made of her own blood, she rotated her body in mid-air.

The moment Kyunroe, who had discarded the magic power fragments, turned around, Sarin and Kyunroe’s forms collided at tremendous speed.

A series of heavy dark blue shockwaves exploded, darkening the surroundings.

Tteodeodeodeodeong!!

Blood gushed out ceaselessly from Sarin’s wrists, which were moving at an invisible speed.

Attacks that discarded the twin swords that had once clashed with Kyunroe without hesitation, and created new ones by drawing blood.

Looking at Atiya and Loberide, it was not even allowed to clash weapons head-on for long.

It was a quick response that found a meaningful clue in the series of defeats that followed in an instant, but-

Kwaaaang!!

“Kahak…!!!”

He grabbed Sarin’s form, which was moving at a crazy speed, and slammed her into the ground in one go.

A strange and incomprehensible movement, as if Sarin had been sucked into Kyunroe’s hand on her own.

Crack!!

Dark blue lightning surged and rippled along Kyunroe’s arm, which had grabbed Sarin’s neck.

The lightning that swept along Kyunroe’s right arm was about to burn and explode Sarin’s body without hesitation.

The moment a translucent shield flashed in front of her, Sarin’s figure disappeared.

“I now understand the meaning of the message that Heiberk spoke of.”

Ezekiel, who had covered his face with a cloth, was standing there, holding Sarin by the scruff of her neck with one hand.

He threw the vampire, who had lost half of her consciousness due to the pain that had exceeded her limits, and slowly turned towards Kyunroe.

“A great failure… is that the ending you desire in this war?”

[……]

“A masochistic nature that seeks destruction even after designing everything…”

Ezekiel’s indifferent voice seemed to be mixed with a faint smile.

“If His Majesty the Emperor had seen you, he would have been very pleased.”

Kyunroe didn’t react to Ezekiel’s words.

As if he had no interest, he turned his expressionless face and looked around the battlefield.

He simply looked down at his two hands, which were rippling with lightning.

[……]

He slowly clenched his hands, which were not stained with a single drop of blood, and realized what he was.

He recalled those he had killed just before with these hands and reminded himself of who he was.

Crack, crack…!!!!

The dark blue lightning that had risen from Kyunroe’s back soared like wings, drawing a huge circle.

The blackish-blue lightning was bleached white, and then became an opaque light and floated above his head.

A bizarrely pale halo began to rotate behind Kyunroe’s head.

Oooooooo!!

A strange resonance that seemed to shake the soul.

The resonance that erupted from Kyunroe pressed down on the spirituality of everyone standing in this place.

A sense of incongruity, as if they were being forced to bow their heads towards him, worship him, and have faith in him.

Before they could even recognize the nature of the déjà vu, Kyunroe raised his hand and lightly tapped the air.

The moment a white ripple followed his gesture, slowly rotating through the air.

The form of the rosary, who had been trying to chant behind Kyunroe, was sliced through space and flung backward.

Jjeooooooong!!!!

The flames that had been protecting his body all evaporated, and his flesh and bones were crushed and scattered.

A corpse that had become a bloody mess, leaving only a miserable corpse on the floor, without even uttering a single scream.

In the center of the corpses, who had bowed their heads as if worshiping him and had stopped breathing, was Kyunroe, with a pale halo around him and his hands outstretched.

“This, can’t be…!!!!!”

Daymus shuddered at the bizarre and suffocating divinity that was beyond human comprehension.

From the moment he faced Kyunroe, who had been dragged into reality after the ritual failed, he could only repeat the same words as if his head was broken.

“No, this is… no longer…!!”

Daymus had not re-entered the battle against Kyunroe, who had been dragged into reality, without any countermeasures.

Nevertheless, the power that Kyunroe was showing now far exceeded the level that Daymus had assumed.

‘It’s clear that he’s using a huge amount of power to maintain his body since the ritual failed. But even so…!’

The ascension ritual was a process of completely disassembling one’s own mind and body and reconstructing them as an ascendant.

It was certain that Kyunroe’s body had not been perfectly constructed and had been dragged into reality at the point where the ritual failed.

That form, with his entire body covered in lightning, was proof that Kyunroe was constantly ‘consuming’ lightning to maintain his body.

Every moment he moved and thought, he was undoubtedly consuming a huge amount of lightning power just by existing.

The fact that he had lowered his output after unleashing his power against Songha for the first time was probably a measure to instinctively conserve his remaining power.

‘The consumption should have become so severe that he wouldn’t be able to maintain his body by the time he entered the battle. But…!!’

If he had to consume lightning just by existing, there was no need to mention how great the consumption would be from the moment he started fighting.

The reason why Daymus risked his life and ordered his forces to re-enter the battle against Kyunroe.

It was because he thought that there would definitely come a point when Kyunroe would be so ‘worn down’ that he would not be able to maintain his body if he kept fighting.

But as if mocking Daymus’s calculations, Kyunroe was still massacring his allies as naturally as breathing at this very moment.

And not just by maintaining a defensive posture, but by playing with and destroying the powerful transcendents who had survived so far like toys, an incomprehensible scene.

A fragment of transcendent power that felt endlessly cruel, yet incomprehensibly bizarre, empty, and broken.

Only now could Daymus finally understand the true nature of that power.

“Martial arts…”

The afterimage of transcendent martial arts, which he had never considered from Kyunroe from the moment he planned the subjugation battle.

It was an incomprehensible martial extreme, to the point that it was doubtful whether he had reached ascension as a martial artist, rather than challenging ascension as a mage.

At this moment, when he had broken through all of Kyunroe’s plans and dragged him into reality, there was still something unbelievable remaining there.

A martial art so lofty that his knowledge could not even begin to fathom, so unimaginable that it was beyond his comprehension, was there.